Dava Sobel

Come see readings by the 2014 McKnight Fellows in Poetry, administered by the Loft Literary Center. Guidelines for the 2016 McKnight Artist Fellowships for Writers in Poetry and Younger Children's Literature, administered by the Loft Literary Center, are available now.

Reading:
Sierra DeMulder, Danez Smith, Carolyn Williams-Noren, and Sun Yung Shin

Sun Yung Shin is the author of poetry collections Unbearable Splendor (forthcoming), Rough, and Savage and Skirt Full of Black (Asian American Literary Award) all from Coffee House Press. Her new anthology, A Peculiar Price: New Writing on Racial Realities in Minnesota, is forthcoming from Minnesota Historical Society Press in 2016. She is the co-editor of the anthology Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption, and is also the author of Cooper’s Lesson, a bilingual Korean/English illustrated book for children. She is a 2014–15 McKnight Foundation fellow for literature and has received grants and fellowships from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Bush Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and elsewhere. Shin has written for the likes of Star Tribune, Gazillion Voices, The Nerds of Color, and presents her work in a wide variety of community, literary, and academic venues. She lives in Minneapolis.

Carolyn Williams-Noren has built a writing life while raising two daughters and working as a communications manager for a housing nonprofit, and has learned the craft of poetry primarily from teachers, mentors, and colleagues at the Loft. Carolyn's chapbook, Small Like a Tooth, was published this year by Dancing Girl Press. Other recent poems can be found in Salamander, Tar River Poetry, Calyx, and Sugar House Review. Carolyn received a 2010–2011 Loft Mentor Series award, a 2010 Blacklock Nature Sanctuary fellowship, and a 2013 Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. She is also the founder and custodian of a free poetry lbrary (littlepoetrylibrary.org) in the Minneapolis neighborhood where she lives with her family.

Sierra DeMulder is an internationally touring performance poet and educator. She is a two-time National Poetry Slam champion and the author of The Bones Below and New Shoes on a Dead Horse (2010, 2012, Write Bloody Publishing). Sierra is the recipient of a 2014 McKnight Fellowship. Her work has been featured on NPR, Huffington Post, The Advocate, and more. In addition to performing, Sierra is the curriculum director of the Gustavus Adolphus College Institute of Spoken Word and Poetry Slam, an annual writing summer camp for high school students, and one of the founders of Button Poetry, the largest digital distributor of spoken word in the world. Sierra holds a BA from the University of Minnesota. She lives in Minneapolis with her dog, Fidelis.

Danez Smith was born Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is the author of insert Boy (YesYes Books, 2014), winner of the Lambda Literary Award, and the chapbook hands on ya knees (Penmanship Books, 2013). Smith is the recipient of fellowships from the McKnight Foundation, Cave Canem, Voices of Our Nation (VONA), and elsewhere. He is a founding member of the multigenre, multicultural Dark Noise Collective. His writing has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Beloit Poetry Journal, Kinfolks, and elsewhere. In poetry slam, he is a 2011 Individual World Poetry Slam finalist and the reigning two-time Rustbelt Individual Champion, and was on the 2014 championship team Sad Boy Supper Club. In 2014 he was the festival director for the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam, and he was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He earned a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was a First Wave Urban Arts Scholar. (The_Loft_Library)… (meer)

Please join us for the launch of the second issue of Nepantla on Saturday, August 15 at 7 p.m.

Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color is an intentional community space. Their mission is to nurture, celebrate, and preserve diversity within the queer poetry community. Through this journal, Nepantla is attempting to center the lives and experiences of QPOC in contemporary America.

With sponsor Lambda Literary, we are celebrating the launch of Nepantla's second issue with a national series of readings and launch parties—one in each region of the continental U.S.—in an ongoing effort to ensure the journal's accessibility, diversity, and inclusiveness to all communities of queer and trans people of color. Co-hosted by Graywolf Press and Coffee House Press, the Midwest regional event will be held on Saturday, August 15, at 7 p.m. at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, and will feature performances by four outstanding poets—Hieu Minh Nguyen, Cameron Awkward-Rich, Erin Sharkey, and Danez Smith.

Hieu Minh Nguyen's poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Devil’s Lake, The Journal, Southern Indiana Review, Vinyl, The Paris-American, and Indiana Review. Hieu is a Kundiman fellow, and a recipient of the Minnesota Emerging Writers’ Grant from The Loft Literary Center. His debut collection of poetry, This Way to the Sugar (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014), was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award and the Lambda Literary Award. He is currently living in Minneapolis.

Cameron Awkward-Rich is the author of the chapbook Transit, published by Button Poetry in 2015. His work has appeared/is forthcoming in The Journal, cream city review, Vinyl, and elsewhere. A Cave Canem fellow, Cam is currently a PhD candidate in Modern Thought & Literature at Stanford University. His first full length collection, Sympathetic Little Monster, will be released by Ricochet Editions in January 2016. You can find him at www.cawkwardrich.com.

Erin Sharkey is a prose poet, essayist, educator, and graphic designer, passionate about creating events and spaces where community and art are vital. She was nominated for Best New Poets 2015, has been recently featured in The 2015 Great Twin Cities Poetry Read, is a 2015 Givens Foundation for African American Literature Fellow, and has been published in rockpaperscissors. Erin is a co-founder of Free Black Dirt, an artist collective committed to creating original theater and performance, hosting innovative events, organizing local artists, and promoting and supporting the emerging artists’ of color community in the Twin Cities. Erin recently produced the play, There Are Other Worlds, which opened to sold out audiences at Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis. Erin is an MFA candidate at Hamline University.

Danez Smith is the author of insert boy (2014, YesYes Books), winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, and finalist for the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. His second collection will be published by Graywolf Press in 2017. His work has been published and featured widely including in Poetry Magazine, Beloit Poetry Journal, Buzzfeed, Blavity, and Ploughshares. He is a 2014 Ruth Lilly-Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow, a Cave Canem and VONA alum, and a recipient of a McKnight Foundation Fellowship. He is a two-time Individual World Poetry Slam finalist, placing second in 2014. He edits for The Offing and is a founding member of two collectives, Dark Noise and Sad Boy Supper Club. He lives in Minneapolis, MN.

There is a $5-$10 suggested admission fee for this event. (The_Loft_Library)… (meer)

The Northshire History Reading Group will meet on Tuesday May June 17th at 6pm in the bookstore conference room to discuss Longitude by Dava Sobel.

If you are a member of this reading group, please stop by the bookstore to pick up your reserved copy of this title (and receive a 20% discount) For more information call the bookstore at 802.362.2200

Location: Street: Northshire Bookstore Conference Room Additional: 4869 Main Street City: Manchester Center, Province: Vermont Postal Code: 05255 Country: United States (toegevoegd uit IndieBound)… (meer)

2012 Philadelphia Book Festival A More Perfect Heaven Dava Sobel Award-winning science writer Dava Sobel’s bestselling books include Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter, and The Planets. In the elegant Longitude, Sobel relayed the dramatic human story behind the invention of the chronometer, which revolutionized naval navigation. With Galileo’s Daughter she infused the father of modern science with expressions of character and everyday details, bringing his enveloping struggle to life. A freelance writer for twenty years, Sobel was a staff reporter in the Science News department at the New York Times. She is also the co-author of The Illustrated Longitude and the editor of Letters to Father. A More Perfect Heaven merges her Copernicus-inspired play, And the Sun Stood Still, with the nonfiction narrative of Copernicus’s life, seminal text, and revolutionary ideas. Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway) This is a FREE event; no tickets or reservations are required. For more information, please call 215-567-4341, or click here

Location: Street: Free Library of Philadelphia Additional: 1901 Vine Street City: Philadelphia, Province: Pennsylvania Postal Code: 19103-5207 Country: United States (toegevoegd uit IndieBound)… (meer)

Dava Sobel

Dava Sobel, a former New York Times science reporter, is the author of Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter, and The Planets. In her thirty years as a science journalist, she has written for many magazines and co-authored five books, including Is Anyone Out There? with astronomer Frank Drake. In 2001, Ms. Sobel received the Individual Public Service Award from the National Science Board and the Boston Museum of Science’s prestigious Bradford Washburn Award for her “outstanding contribution toward public understanding of science, appreciation of its fascination, and the vital role it plays in all our lives.” In October 2004, in London, Ms. Sobel received the Harrison Medal from the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers, in recognition of her contribution to increasing awareness of the science of horology, through her writing and lecturing. (lemontwist)… (meer)

Dava Sobel spreekt over Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love.

The coincidental revolutions in music and science in the 17th century are the focal points of a free public multimedia event featuring Dava Sobel, author of “Galileo’s Daughter” and “Longitude,” and soprano Sarah Pillow and her Baroque ensemble, Galileo’s Daughters. The event “Perpetual Motion: Revolutions in 17th Century Science and Music” will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6, at the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space in Lathrop Hall. Limited seating is available. The event is sponsored by the Science, Arts and Humanities Program of the Wisconsin Initiative for Science Literacy. (jlelliott)… (meer)

Jim Newton; Scott Simon; Ngugi Wa Thiong'o; Douglas Brinkley; Mark Doty; Dava Sobel; Francesca Lia Block; Ulin, David L.; Woods, Paula; Salter Reynolds, Susan

Please plan to join us at UCLA in April 2008 for the 28th annual presentation of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. We'll carry forward a proud tradition that has honored A. Scott Berg, Ray Bradbury, Robert Caro, Joan Didion, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gabriel García Márquez, Allen Ginsberg, Mark Haddon, Anthony Hecht, Seymour Hersh, Tony Hillerman, Christopher Isherwood, Ken Kesey, Milan Kundera, Ursula Le Guin, Doris Lessing, Robert Littell, Frank McCourt, David McCullough, Ian McEwan, Larry McMurtry, Tillie Olsen, Walker Percy, Ishmael Reed, Carl Sagan and W.G. Sebald, among many other authors. (claytonhowl)… (meer)